Coronavirus (COVID-19) Discussion Thread

[Mnementh]

SvennoJ said:

Mnementh said:

You should build a wall - and let the (US-)americans pay for it! (-;

Make Canada Great Again!

Sorry, couldn't resist.

:)


It's just frustrating, my family hasn't been able to visit for over a year now because the border is supposedly closed. Yet there are so many loopholes that it's totally ineffective. "On Friday, Ontario reported 2,700 new cases of the B.1.1.7 variant, which was first discovered in the U.K. According to Public Health Ontario, the majority of samples screened come back positive for the B.1.1.7 variant or the two other variants of concern circulating in the province." We're importing new variants from all over the world, B117 is the dominant one atm, yet Brazil, Africa and now India strains are circulating as well. And with our high active cases we're probably breeding new strains as well.

29% has received a first dose now of one of the vaccines (3.2% second dose), more vaccines are coming. At some point it should start having an effect. For now we're setting one grim record after the other. "A 13-year-old girl from Brampton has become one of the youngest people in Ontario to die of COVID-19. The girl’s father was an essential worker at a warehouse, the mayor said. As of Sunday, the city's test positivity rate stood at 22.2 per cent."

It was all so predictable and preventable, frustrating.

I get the frustration. Probably most people are frustrated with how their government is handling the pandemic (maybe except in east asia and new zealand or so). Here in germany the politician that wants to become the next chancellor has just said that we have exponential growth in vaccination. If politicians have even after a year not learned some basic terms, this is not great. We are amidst the third wave and people are still discussing opening up. Yes, we are vaccinating, but can we please wait until vaccination shows a real effect on the pandemic before we open up? This all is exhausting. I don't want to make the same arguments again and again.